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Navigating Puberty and Developmental Disabilities Webinar

Family Matters PTIC, in partnership with Easterseals Family Support Services serving Chicago and the Greater Rockford Area, is proud to offer this specialized training designed to help families and professionals navigate the unique challenges that arise during puberty for youth with intellectual disabilities.

This interactive session provides practical tools and strategies to support youth as they experience the physical, emotional, and social changes of puberty, including:

Typical developmental milestones during puberty

How intellectual disabilities may impact a youth’s understanding and response to these changes

Tools for teaching body autonomy, personal hygiene, and healthy boundaries

Strategies for encouraging self-awareness, safety, and self-advocacy

Approaches to discussing sensitive topics like relationships and emotional regulation in a respectful, age-appropriate way

Participants will gain real-life examples, inclusive communication strategies, and access to valuable resources. This training empowers families and professionals to support youth with dignity, confidence, and compassion.

Target Audience: Parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals who support youth with intellectual disabilities.

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Social Skills to Social Success

Social Skills to Social Success is a student-centered, interactive series designed to help youth with disabilities improve their communication, relationships, and self-regulation. These skills are essential for thriving in school, work, and social settings.

This free series is ideal for students with disabilities who affect social interaction and want to build confidence and independence.

? Weekly Topics:

Session 1 (June 18): What Are Social Skills & Why Are They Important?
Session 2 (June 25): Feelings vs. Emotions
Session 3 (July 2): Self-Regulation & Appropriate Public Behavior
Session 4 (July 9) Basics of Conversations & Social Skills in School & the Workplace
Session 5 (July 16): Social Skills: Friendships
Session 6 (July 23) Self-Advocacy

Free
Recurring

Social Skills to Social Success

Social Skills to Social Success is a student-centered, interactive series designed to help youth with disabilities improve their communication, relationships, and self-regulation. These skills are essential for thriving in school, work, and social settings.

This free series is ideal for students with disabilities who affect social interaction and want to build confidence and independence.

What, Wait! You Want Me to Talk About Sexuality?

Healthy relationship boundaries are an important skill for us all. We are seeing more and more examples of those who have crossed lines in our culture. Even though people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are sexual beings, just like everyone, they also need the information and skills to navigate these waters and learn what’s okay and not okay in various settings.

This FREE 60-minute workshop will explore tips and tools for addressing sexuality one-on-one with the individuals you work with. We will explore why this topic can be difficult to approach and useful tools that will help you become more comfortable and confident communicating about this sensitive topic.

Free

Charting My Course: Leading the Way in IEPs- Family Matters

Join us for an empowering, interactive session designed to equip educators, families, and students with strategies and tools to support student-led IEP meetings. This webinar explores how using Charting the LifeCourse tools can promote student voice, build self-advocacy skills, and shift the IEP process from adult-led to student-centered.

This webinar is ideal for:
Special educators, transition coordinators, family advocates, related service providers, and middle-to-high school students with IEPs.

Recurring

Social Skills to Social Success

Social Skills to Social Success is a student-centered, interactive series designed to help youth with disabilities improve their communication, relationships, and self-regulation. These skills are essential for thriving in school, work, and social settings.

This free series is ideal for students with disabilities who affect social interaction and want to build confidence and independence.

? Weekly Topics:

Session 1 (June 18): What Are Social Skills & Why Are They Important?
Session 2 (June 25): Feelings vs. Emotions
Session 3 (July 2): Self-Regulation & Appropriate Public Behavior
Session 4 (July 9) Basics of Conversations & Social Skills in School & the Workplace
Session 5 (July 16): Social Skills: Friendships
Session 6 (July 23) Self-Advocacy

Free
Recurring

Social Skills to Social Success

Social Skills to Social Success is a student-centered, interactive series designed to help youth with disabilities improve their communication, relationships, and self-regulation. These skills are essential for thriving in school, work, and social settings.

This free series is ideal for students with disabilities who affect social interaction and want to build confidence and independence.

Understanding Supported Decision-Making

-Learn about the principles of supported decision-making and how it is used as an alternative to guardianship
-Discuss the roles and responsibilities of both the young adult and the support team
-Hear first hand from a individual using Supported Decision-Making in their every day life.